Author Notes:

"I am fine," replies the giant mouth on the wall. "I have finished preparing myself to function as storage. If you have anything you wish to stow away, bring it to me, and I will swallow it."

"Well," Fuse says, "that's definitely something I'd love to unhear."

To copy the steps of Incident F, you'll need to turn into a ghost, load yourself into one of the containment canisters, and have the canister plugged into the big Odin machine. For that, you'll need someone to actually plug the canister in, and someone to activate the machine.

Caius seemed fairly invested in the plight of the girls, so you ask him to accompany you. Dr. Finch understands the machine better than anyone else, but is fairly busy--and you have something you want to try.

You ask Elizabeth if she could come with you, and help activate the machine. It'll involve syncing knowledge from Dr. Finch, and... well, being in a weird ghost bunker.

"I suppose I can," she replies.

With that, you, Caius, and Liz head to Bunker E. Caius retrieves Tesla's canister, and you sync with Dr. Finch and Elizabeth so she can draw from Finch's knowledge about the experiment. You're curious if your body can maintain the sync while you're away from it.

You light the candles in Bunker E, and perform the ritual to separate your mind from your body as an imprint.

Your imprinted form emerges at decent strength, even without you focusing on it, or doing any strengthening rituals. It seems like your astral form "remembers" how potent it was last time. ...Or something. At any rate, you're visible to the others.

You make your way to the back room. Caius puts the canister down so you can climb inside it. He screws the lid back on... and he plugs the canister into the device.

Liz, drawing on Dr. Finch's knowledge, begins to power up the machine... then overload it, to put you at Faraday levels. Your blood is, in fact, keeping the sync together even with your 'mind' outside it, your red acting semi-autonomously without your instruction.

You feel yourself being spread, but becoming denser, at the same time. You feel yourself becoming too large to fit, but continuing to grow regardless. You feel part of yourself being forced into the rest of you, and again, and again, layers upon layers strangling every inch of your mass until the surface breaks and you spill out.

You find yourself in a subconsciously induced representation of your own mind to help cope with the trauma of being mentally dispersed.

Despite the room being very familiar, you feel a little lost.

Comments:

I think this room is just pretty much a staging area/jumping off point so we need to actually prepare in here until we're ready to leave and try to "feel" ourselves in the real room, feeling is the first step, before we can go back to reconstitution

It's a closet in reality. It's a blank wall in the mindscape version of this room-- this can't be a simulation of the real room, since those plushies and computer are at Bunker A now (and the actual hallway door is missing completely). The fact that there is a door where there shouldn't be... probably means there's something significant behind it.

Even if Mine can't reach Red, she should probably see what she DOES have access to, in this mental simulation version of herself. Check her inventory and see if she can use... mental simulation versions of her blood powers.

See if we can call out to Faraday. Maybe we can hit her up on Instant Messenger from our computer? Check the closet and under the bed (that's where Red has come out of before when returning from the outside world). If we can get her in here (or at least find out if we can contact her from here) we might be able to kill 2 birds with 1 stone in getting both Faraday and Jane back to one piece.

Also getting some heavy Yume Nikki vibes. Maybe we should try going to sleep in the bed and see if we can enter a dream world from here. :P

A dream world within a dream world? Do we need to imagine up an eternally-spinning top?

If this is a mindscape chapter, we might not end up in Mine's house hallway after stepping through that door. Might end up in a version of the hospital (before or after monsters), Bunker A, or meatvision environments from when Red was trying to frighten Mine.

This makes three of three mindscape chapters with people whose names start with M. Michelle, Macland, Mine. Guess next on the list would be... Zene's mother, Mav?

Agreed. Take a moment to collect yourself and get better oriented. Then start checking the room and computer.

We can try contacting Red, but since she's not in her body, it's probably not going to do much. Maybe with a change in perspective and self-awareness, but not right now.

This doesn't appear to be like some sort of self-sync, though I suppose it's possible. I suspect what we're working with is a subconscious separation between Mine and Faraday. We're currently sharing space with her in the electrical circuit, if I'm understanding this right. That suggests that, currently, Mine and Faraday are connected. That door probably leads to Faraday's mind.

Check the closet, the bookshelf and the computer. If we can't find anything noteworthy start with what we know from being the blood and pulling ourself back from that. Try to feel out what's similar and what's different.

Also, inspired by the awesome suggestion of calling the Tradesmen with Caius's earpiece, we should also try some other experimental calls. If we need advice, call the Library. Because. And since ghosts are a thing, try dialing up some dead folks, like Dr. Calloway, or Mine's parents. No telling what this thing's limits are. We might even be able to use it offensively...

Nah, dial Carpenter and Thale and track the calls using Fuse's skills and that alien computer to determine their locations. Potentially use the thing for IM texting to Carpenter after networking with the alien comp to upload ransomware into his cybernetics. Depending on how modified he is, and if he's packing that braincase mod from shroom guy, it might outright kill him.

Do similar with the bioprinters using a trojan program that triggers when they start printing monsters or tainted parts.